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Contents of Self Compacting Concrete
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Design, Rheology and Casting of Self-Compacting Concretes
- Sofiane AMZIANE, Christophe LANOS and
- Michel MOURET
- Towards a fluid concrete
- Area of application
- SCC formulation basics
- Specificity of SCC formulation
- Design methods for SCC
- SCC rheology
- Fundamental concepts
- Rheological characteristics: methods and ranges of measured values
- Rheology at different scales
- Evolution in rheology during casting – thixotropy
- Industrial practices
- Determining rheology during mixing and transport
- Pumping
- Self-Compacting Concrete
- Forces exerted by SCCs on formworks
- Important parameters
- Changes in pressure against a formwork
- Adapting the casting conditions
- Modeling pressure
- Bibliography
- Chapter 2 Early Age Behavior
- Philippe TURCRY and Ahmed LOUKILI
- Introduction
- Hydration and its consequences
- Hydration
- Setting
- Chemical shrinkage and endogenous shrinkage
- Heat release, thermal contraction and the risk of cracking
- Early age desiccation and its consequences: different approaches to the problem
- Plastic shrinkage and drop in capillary pressure
- Analysis of studied phenomena
- Comparison of plastic shrinkage for SCCs and conventional concretes
- Controlled drying
- Forced drying
- Influence of composition on free plastic shrinkage
- Influence of the paste composition
- Influence of the paste proportion
- Cracking due to early drying
- Experimental apparatus
- Comparison of SCCs and conventional concretes
- Summary
- Bibliography
- Table of Contents vii
- Chapter 3 Mechanical Properties and Delayed
- Deformations
- Thierry VIDAL, Philippe TURCRY, Stéphanie STAQUET and Ahmed LOUKILI
- Introduction
- Instantaneous mechanical properties
- Time-evolution of compressive strength
- Tensile strength
- Elastic modulus
- Differences in mechanical behavior
- Free shrinkage
- Restrained shrinkage
- Evolution and prediction of delayed deformations under loading, creep deformations
- Behavior of steel-concrete bonding
- Anchorage capacity
- Transfer capacity of reinforcement tensile stress to concrete and cracking Bibliography
- Chapter 4 Durability of Self-Compacting Concrete
- Emmanuel ROZIÈRE and Abdelhafid KHELIDJ
- Properties and parameters that influence durability
- Mechanical strength
- Porosity and properties of the porous
- network
- Absorption
- Transport phenomena
- Permeability
- Diffusion
- Degradation mechanisms
- Reinforcement bar corrosion risk
- Aggressive water
- Self-Compacting Concrete
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 5 High Temperature Behavior of
- Self-Compacting Concretes
- Changes in SCC microstructure and
- physico-chemical properties with temperature
- Physico-chemical properties
- Mechanical behavior of SCCs at high temperature
- Changes in compressive strength
- Elastic modulus
- Thermal stability
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
